Qld Dossier

This time it is a documentary shot in various places around Queensland in 1978 linking Bjelke Petersen’s ban on street marches with the State’s repression of opposition to uranium mining and Land Rights (44 minutes).

Peter Gray from Radical times said that an earlier video “If You Don’t Fight, You Lose” nicely compliments “Queensland Dossier” in the sense that the month that project completed shooting and started editing (i.e. December 1977) appears to be the same month that the Jeune (Pritchard)’s documentary started shooting (and then continued shooting during 1978). So one starts where the other left off. Perfect segue…..

You can view the documentary and associated material on the Radical Times Historical Archive web site at grid position 7A by clicking on this thumbnail image…

“What did come through quite strongly in the course of this (video) tape was thedisunity of the left, the divisions between the Socialist Workers Party, the Communist Party, the various Trades and Labour Councils, splits between unions, women and Aboriginal groups. The Civil Liberties Co-ordinating Council (sic) has been unable to achieve a unity between parties opposed to National Party policies. The tape only begins to explore these splits, the divisions are articulated but not really analysed.”

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1. Industrial question: The Master/servant relationship. The struggle for Worker Control.
2. Ownership question: Who owns the land or does the land own us? Rights to the city, right to country. The struggle of indigenous people for land rights and social justice in Australia.
3. Political question: This is the class struggle. Who owns the means of production? Who governs? How are democratic rights won and shared.

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*Industrial - Master/servant relationship. The power of boss over worker.
*Ownership - The struggle of indigenous people for land rights and social justice in Australia. Rights to country, right to city.
*Political - The class question. Who should govern? Who owns the means of production? Why and how?

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